When your ideas are frequently stifled by the norms society creates, you start to lash out against those norms. Any hard working person can have knowledge, true geniuses are creative and don't even have a box that they think in.

When your ideas are frequently stifled by the norms society creates, you start to lash out against those norms. Any hard working person can have knowledge, true geniuses are creative and don't even have a box that they think in.

If you look back through history at famous poets, artists, mathematicians, writers, and physicists you would realize nearly all of them suffered from mental disorders, yet they accomplished astonishing things.

The two aren't linked. Madness, however, can give some insights that sane people don't get. That is mostly because sane people don't have to look beyond the safe borders, and when you're mad, 'safe borders' aren't actually present.

So my hypothesis is: Madness and genius aren't linked. Madness is sometimes mistaken for genius. As it was in my case. I was clearly labelled 'genius' by several psychologists and tutors, but in reality, I am of average intelligence. I'm just also insane.

The two aren't linked. Madness, however, can give some insights that sane people don't get. That is mostly because sane people don't have to look beyond the safe borders, and when you're mad, 'safe borders' aren't actually present.

So my hypothesis is: Madness and genius aren't linked. Madness is sometimes mistaken for genius. As it was in my case. I was clearly labelled 'genius' by several psychologists and tutors, but in reality, I am of average intelligence. I'm just also insane.

A: Because there's a much easier explanation, which I gave in that post.
B: Personal reasons, but I could give you quite a long list that starts somewhere with 'depression' and ends somewhere with 'psychotic displacement episodes.'
Being insane doesn't cause me to suddenly lose all capabilities of coherent writing.